Food security in the time of Covid-19

Food security in the time of Covid-19

Gisèle is Executive Director of Food Secure Canada and has 20 years of leadership experience in knowledge organizations having served as a not-for-profit and federal government executive including Vice-President of Research and Partnerships at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Gisèle brings a deep food systems lens to her work and started working on […]

Threats, evictions and resistance – Nairobi

Threats, evictions and resistance – Nairobi

I speak with Nyarari Ya Mumbi & Ruth Mumbi Nyarari is a Broadcast Journalist, an economic rights activist, Communication officer at Kenya Tuitakayo Movement, Co-Convener and Media Relations Person – Grassroots Women Initiative Network – Kenya and Co-Convener The Red Vests Movement Kenya. Mother and General Kayole Command Base. Ruth Mumbi is a community organizer […]

Adrian Harewood: Perspectives from the media

Adrian Harewood: Perspectives from the media

Adrian is co-host of CBC News Ottawa. Harewood attended elementary and high school at Ashbury College, and was involved in community radio at CKCU (Carleton University) and CHUO (University of Ottawa). He has been a guest host on national CBC programs such as As it Happens, Sounds Like Canada and The Current. Before coming to […]

Lou Turner: Fanon and Black Lives

Lou Turner: Fanon and Black Lives

Lou Turner is Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois (UIUC), and former Academic Advisor and Curriculum Coordinator, Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois (2008-2017). Previously, he was Assistant Professor of sociology, for 14 years, at North Central College, in Naperville, Illinois where he […]

Big data, big surveillance and industrial agriculture

Big data, big surveillance and industrial agriculture

Elenita (Neth) Daño and Jim Thomas are the current co-Executive Directors of the ETC Group . ETC Group is small independent  international research and advocacy collective that tracks the impacts of emerging technologies and  corporate concentration on the rights of marginalised peoples, on food systems, biodiversity and traditional communities. In the context of Covid19 ETC […]